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The Church has been given the (sociologically difficult) task of testifying through what she is to the absoluteness of God's loving care for the world in Christ. She has to claim catholicity, that is, totality, while being one social edifice among others. This task, from the human point of view, is a heavy burden, bound to attract to the Church and her representatives the odium of an arrogant absolutism[.]

The Absolute bends downs toward the creature, but it only reaches the creaturely level, giving it access and citizenship in the sphere of the Absolute. In other words if it is to be a self-communication of the Absolute it must be both ontological and verbal: "participation in the divine nature" without verbal communication is just as unthinkable as verbal communication without substantial participation.